DEATH RECORDS
NEW YORK
OBITUARY
Romeyn, Hiram Radcliff, a Former member
of the New York Genealogical & Biographical Socieity [N.Y.G & B.S.]
died Dec. 27, 1904, at his residence, 50 East Sixty-Sixth Street,
New York, aged seventy - six years. He was born in 1828 at Kingston,
N.Y., and was the son of John T. Romeyn and Catherine Radcliff both
of Kingston, N.Y. His grandfather, Jeremiah Romeyn, was the son of
Nicholas, who was the fourth in descent {Nicholas {4} John, [3] Class
Kuper,{2} Janse {1}} from Janse Romeyn, who came from Holland to
New Amsterdam in 1660.
Mr. Romeyn was educated at Kingston
Academy. He removed in 1865 from Kingston to New York , where he
successfully engaged in the tea trade until a few years ago, when he retired
from business. He was married to Emma A. Langworthy, daughter
of William and Emma {Abbey} Langworthy, who died in 1885, leaving one child,
Charles W. Romeyn, who survives his father."
Sources:
1. __________, "Obituary," "New York Genealogical &
Biographical Record" 36 (1905): 227, 228.
2. Mildred A. McDonnell, comp., "The Romine Family (Romeyn,
Romaine, Romyn, etc.), Book I," p. 55.
McDonnell cites "New York Genealogical
& Biographical Record" 36 (1905): 227. [Note: Romine book
does not include Emma A. Langworthy's
parents names]